[Lingtyp] odd clitic behaviours >> teaching terms and concepts in pedagogy

[Randy J. LaPolla]

I second Arnold’s suggestion. For my teaching I had a series of t-shirts made with slogans like these to encourage critical thinking, such as “Question the Questions”, “Question the Answers”, “Question the Unquestioned”, “Ask Why?”, “Ask Why Not?”, “Nullius in Verba”, “Challenge the Dominant Paradigm”, and many others, each day wearing a different slogan and addressing the concepts, such as how the questions we ask influence what we do in linguistics and we should be wary of the many logical fallacies used in argumentation in asking questions and giving answers.

Randy
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> On 21 Feb 2022, at 9:37 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> On Feb 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Greville Corbett <g.corbett at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Many thanks, Eltan, for this interesting turn.
>> 
>> A sobering question is “In ten years time, how many people in this linguistics class are going to care about the definition of phoneme, clitic or right node raising?" If the proportion is small, then a linguistics class can be invaluable in getting over messages which will matter in ten years time, such as: 
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>> 	• beware of arguments from authority
>> 	• respect the data
>> 	• don’t guess when you can measure
>> 	• beyond what we think we know there’s a seething mass of uncertainly and ignorance out there
>> 	• when we hit the ‘in-between’ cases, we don’t throw our toys out of the pram, but we try to understand the apparently clear cases better
>> 	• “...  the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.” (Peter Medawar: Advice to a Young Scientist 1979 p. 39)
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>> Very best, Grev
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> We need to have this list printed up as a poster, engraved in plaques, maybe even stitched up in needlepoint samplers. Uncle Grev's Guide to Life in Linguistics or something like that. I am not unserious in suggesting this.
> 
> Arnold
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